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List of common cloud providers


Big sizes

Use these for professional applications where uptime, scaling, and support are essential.

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • Oracle Cloud

Medium sizes

These are reputable cloud providers, good for small businesss and self-hosted use cases where price is a concern.

  • Hetzner
  • Akamai Linode
  • DigitalOcean

Small sizes

See https://lowendbox.com for smaller cloud providers.

Storage

All the big cloud providers offer storage. These are additional options for different purposes.

Object Storage

Backups

Note that some of these providers previously had lower per-TB pricing but would charge for egress. Now they provide free egress up to reasonable limits.

Heavy Egress

  • Cloudflare R2

SSH/SFTP Backup

  • rsync.net

Colocation

  • zfs.rent will host your drives with a free VPS for $10/month/drive